Adafruit Hmc5883l Breakout Triple Axis Magnetometer Compass Sensor

Adafruit HMC5883L Breakout - Triple-Axis Magnetometer Compass
Sensor
Created by lady ada
Last updated on 2018-08-22 03:40:08 PM UTC

Guide Contents
Guide Contents 2
Overview 3
Pinouts 5
Assembly 7
Prepare the header strip: 7
Add the breakout board: 8
And Solder! 9
Wiring and Test 11
Download & Install Libraries 11
Download Adafruit_Sensor 11
Download Adafruit_HMC5883 12
Load Demo 12
Downloads 15
Datasheets & Files 15
Schematic 15
Breakout board design 15
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Overview
He told you "Go West, young maker!" - but you don't know which way is West! Ah, if only you had this triple-axis
magnetometer compass module. A magnetometer can sense where the strongest magnetic force is coming from,
generally used to detect magnetic north.
We based this breakout on a popular and well loved magnetometer, the HMC5883L. This compact sensor uses I2C to
communicate and its very easy to use. Since it's a 3.3V max chip, we added circuitry to make it 5V-safe logic and
power, for easy use with either 3 or 5V microcomtrollers. Simply connect VCC to +3-5V and ground to ground. Then
read data from the I2C clock and data pins. There's also a Data Ready pin you can use to speed up reads (check the
datasheet (https://adafru.it/daB) for details)
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This is the same magnetometer sensor that is inside the LSM303. So if you want an accelerometer as well as a
magnetometer, check out the LSM303 (http://adafru.it/1120) - it has basically this sensor + a nice digital 3-axis
accelerometer!
Specs:
I2C interface
1-2 degree heading accuracy
Integrated 12-bit ADC
160Hz max data rate
Range of -8 to +8 Gauss
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Pinouts
This is a fairly simple breakout. The sensor itself is super tiny and in the middle of the PCB. We have all the useful pins
broken out in to a 0.1" spaced header at the bottom
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VIN - this is the power in pin, give it 3-5VDC. It is reverse-polarity protected. Use the same voltage as you do for
the controlling microcontroller's logic. For an Arduino, 5V is best.
GND - this is the common power and data ground pin
3vo - This is the 3.3V output from the onboard regulator. It will be at 3.3V and you can grab up to 100mA from
this to power other items
SDA and SCL - these are the I2C data and clock pins used to send and receive data from the module to your
microcontroller. There are 10K pullups on these pins to the VIN pin. You can connect these pins to 5V I2C lines,
there are level shifters on board to safely bring the pins down to 3V
RDY - this it the 'data ready' pin output. If you want to stream data at high speed (higher than 100 times a second)
you may want to listen to this pin for when data is ready to be read. Check the datasheet for more details about
using the RDY pin, we don't use it because we don't read that fast!
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Assembly
Assembly is really easy, you can use straight or 'right-angle' style headers to attach to the PCB. We'll be using the plain
straight headers included
The board comes with all surface-mount components pre-soldered. The included header strip can be soldered on for
convenient use on a breadboard or with 0.1" connectors. You can also skip this step and solder on wires.
Prepare the header strip:

Cut the strip to length if necessary. It will be easier to
solder if you insert it into a breadboard - long pins down
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Add the breakout board:
Place the breakout board over the pins so that the short
pins poke through the breakout pads
And Solder!
Be sure to solder all 5 pins for reliable electrical contact.
(For tips on soldering, be sure to check out our Guide to

Excellent Soldering (https://adafru.it/aTk)).
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You're done! Check your solder joints visually and
continue onto the next steps
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Wiring and Test
This 3-axis magnetometer breakout is thankfully very easy to use. It only requires 2 power pins and 2 data pins.
We'll be demoing it with an Arduino but any other microcontroller can be used if you are willing to port the I2C code.
We suggest using an Arduino to start since its guaranteed to work
Connect VIN to 5V pin on the Arduino. If you have a 3V logic Arduino, connect VIN to 3V instead
Connect GND to the ground pin on the Arduino
Connect the SDA pin on the breakout to the I2C data SDA pin on your Arduino. On an UNO & '328 based
Arduino, this is also known as A4, on a Mega it is also known as digital 20 and on a Leonardo/Micro, digital 2
Connect the SCL pin on the breakout to the I2C clock SCL pin on your Arduino. On an UNO & '328 based
Arduino, this is also known as A5, on a Mega it is also known as digital 21 and on a Leonardo/Micro, digital 3
The HMC5883L has a fixed I2C address, you can only connect one sensor per microcontroller!
Download & Install Libraries

Lucky for you we have written a very nice sensor library for the HMC5883L, which is based off of our Adafruit_Sensor
framework library.
Download Adafruit_Sensor
To begin, you will need to download Adafruit_Sensor from our github repository (https://adafru.it/aZm). You can do that
by visiting the github repo and manually downloading or, easier, just click this button to download the zip
https://adafru.it/cMO
https://adafru.it/cMO
Rename the uncompressed folder Adafruit_Sensor and check that the Adafruit_Sensor folder contains
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Adafruit_Sensor.h
Place the Adafruit_Sensor library folder your arduinosketchfolder/libraries/ folder.

You may need to create the libraries subfolder if its your first library. Restart the IDE.
We also have a great tutorial on Arduino library installation at:

http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-all-about-arduino-libraries-install-use (https://adafru.it/aYM)
Download Adafruit_HMC5883
Next you can download the Adafruit HMC5883 "Unified" library. The "Unified" means that it is based on
Adafruit_Sensor and will give you normalized values back in microTeslas instead of arbitrary numbers from 0 to 1023
or whatever is used internally. Again, either visit the github repo (https://adafru.it/daC) or, better, download by clicking
below
https://adafru.it/daD
https://adafru.it/daD
Rename the uncompressed folder Adafruit_HMC5883_U and check that the Adafruit_HMC5883_U folder contains
Adafruit_HMC5883_U.cpp and Adafruit_HMC5883_U.h
Place the Adafruit_Adafruit_HMC5883_U library folder your arduinosketchfolder/libraries/ folder as you did with
Adafruit_Sensor
Finally, restart the IDE!
Load Demo
Open up File->Examples->Adafruit_HMC5883_U->magsensor and upload to your Arduino wired up to the sensor
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And open up the serial console. You will see some quick spec's about the HMC5883 and then a stream of data with X
Y Z magnetometer data in uTeslas and then a calculated heading. If you hold the module so that it is parallel with the
ground then it will point you in the direction of North!
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If you have to mount the module so that some other axis is parallel with the ground (X or Y) you will have to modify the
heading code to take the arcTan of X&Z or Y&Z instead of X&Y
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Downloads
Datasheets & Files
Grab the HMC5883L datasheet here (https://adafru.it/daB), it has a lot more specifications available!
This handy app note from Honeywell talks about how to calculate heading from a magnetometer's raw
data (https://adafru.it/daE)
Fritzing object in the Adafruit Fritzing library (https://adafru.it/aP3)
EagleCAD PCB files on GitHub (https://adafru.it/qpe)
Schematic
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Layout diagram in inches:
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Prepare the header strip:

(For tips on soldering, be sure to check out our Guide to

Download & Install Libraries

Place the Adafruit_Sensor library folder your arduinosketchfolder/libraries/ folder.

We also have a great tutorial on Arduino library installation at:

Finally, restart the IDE!

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